Thursday, November 29

Friday, October 26

In life you meet people that has a small or HUGE impact on you and your life.

When I first moved to Australia I met a Knight a real knight in shining armour and all. Our giant that always was there for us during anciety for exams, home sickness, broken hearts, to drunk to stand on our own two legs. He was there our rock, our giant, our Knight.

Today his sickness won he has left our world and is know free from all pain and suffering his illness caused him.

Yes more things! How much do I need? Well fall arrived and with fall we have below zero degrees (ie cloves, beanie and warmer tights) then there is the issue about daylight (ie nice looking reflex jacket) and chinsplints (try compression socks)..

Wednesday, October 10

This fall I have almost my complete wardrobe in one place, ony city. There are some exceptions that is still at my parents place, but this has given me a chance to actually see what I have, what I need and what I use.

Yhea the last part I should have knows clearly from having my wardrobe divided into three, but hey I'm only human. I like buying clothes and well apprently that is a bad thing, since I'm throwing away my money instead of saving them (yadda yadda yadda). For 8 months I have only bought necessary items like new running clothes, bra. I made two slipups: one pair of shoes for €5 and then a bikini for €8.
That was until I got my massive paycheck in end of august. Since then I have updated my wardrobe with some ehm essentials(links for pictures to previous posts):

Sunday, October 7

I have finally gotten around to read the last book in the triology about Elsa the fashion blogger by Sofi Fahrman (here you can read my reviews from the first and second book). Yes I was not impressed by the first book, neither the second and surprise the third is the same.

Yes it is easy to read and you finish it quickly, but I just hate the moral in the book: You can basically screw up as many times possible with your boyfriend AND still get him back, You can make a severe fool of yourself in your job AND still keep it, you can make a fool of yourself in almost any possible living situation AND still have your dignity!

Yes I know its fiction, but this is soo wrong, it gives the stupid blond fashion loving girl that has no brain stamp. I know there are many smart blond fashion loving girls that has managed to make careers without sheer luck/ sleeping their way to the top. yes Elsa the main caracter apperently has a sharp eye for details and is good at what she does, but why is she still so stupidly naive in the third book, make so many rookie mistakes that I am honestly to be ashamed to be a woman that loves fashion, has a brain and now how to behave in many of the sutuations Elsa clearly does not, but she still manages to keep her cred in the fashion world?!

Oh well chicklit as it should be I guess. If you want to hide behind the pillow, be annoyed at blond stupid girls well read it and learn how NOT to behave!

Saturday, October 6

So this is my first sunday at home in my apartment with no plans at all since ehm earliest May.
Yes you read right I have not spent a whole weekend in my flat since may (it might even be april) at home taking it easy, okok correction! I have not spent a whole weekend at home since april!

Today we had open house at work, so surprise no quite relaxing saturday at home, instead 6hrs work.
When I got home I had aboust of energy and thourougly cleaned my bathroom, showered my plants (yes afterwards in my shiny clean bathtub(clearly wasn't thinking here)). A little bit more cleaning, like windows and mirrors, aire out my bedlinnens and freshly made my bed.

Tomorrows plans are to:
head to a big flea market in a nearby town
reorgnaise my bedroom
spanish homework (due tomorrow)
5 km run (lets pray I'm well enough to do this)
make lunch boxes

Tuesday, October 2

It is not often it happens, but today I just had to see myself defeated. At 3pm I threw in the towel, went home and crashed in my couch.

I felt a little better around 6pm which is luckily becasue I have laundry tonight, headed down all the stairs and when I came back up 10 min later I felt like I had done a 5km run instead of starting 4 loads of laundry.

Sunday, September 16

Two weeks ago I stumbled over Josephine's marathon blog.
Josephine is one of swedens top marathon runners. If you want to feel inspired to run, her success, workout regime, failure and coordinating work at the same time training on elite level. Head over to her blog: Lille kenyanen.
It's in Swedish so for you international readers, try google translate.

I just live the way she writes and yes I am a little biased. We are distantly related (just had to brag)....

I have been given a room with a nightmare lamp!
Ok I sleep with my blinds open because I love to wake up by natural light, but a lamp without a switch that you can't turn off. That is like falling asleep wile reading, you wake up at obscure hours of the night trying to figure out if there is a way to rip out the lightbulb without frying your fingers on the spotlight.

Friday, September 7

This weekend I am spending working at liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg. I will work here promoting my work and of course go one some good dollar coaster while getting paid. Did I mention that occasionally I just love my job?!

And to top it all of we are staying in gothiatowers located in central gothenburg.

Next in line after the dress was logging onto instagram and there on style by Tyra's shop was the sparkly sequin bra. I have been chasing funny bratops since Mexico, but only found lace ones. So I decided for the ooooh so descrete sparkly bra instead....

My shopping an lasted until the 17th of August. Yes I broke my promise on my birthday when I found a dress I had been drooling over all summer on 70% of the 50% sale. Yes it was almost free from the original price.

Thursday, September 6

Last year I was asked by our new principal to take over the mentorship on a student and then another. This is something that is quite unusual that a student switshes between differnt mentors.

The only time thus occurs is when a mentor either quits or there has been a trust issue. Yes some people donot work well together and that is also a student/teacher relationship when it comes to mentoring.

During my five year carrer I have had one student to demand changing to another mnetor from me, and now one asking for me specifically even though I didn't even belong to the correct mentor team.

Well this student is a little special it has a terrible disease it is living with and we have to make special arangements around it. The lastest is "mentor time" that is a designated hour a week I'm supposed to me this student. This student needs to workout at the school gym at least ones a week and well some one (read med) felt this was the perfect time and place to meet. INstead of having the horrible across the desk meeting with me having a notepad and writing down everything we say, why not have an hour at the gym instead?!

Well me being me cannot be at the gym just walking around. The student wants company, not someone sitting of their time with them. So in between the sessions where it needed help I worked out. WE are talking 45 min work ot with low weights half hearted since there were som many things that needed to get storted this time. Why then are my legs and bum litterally killing me after a 1x10 lounges session and 10 min on a bike??? The rest were uppebody of helping the student.....

Wednesday, September 5

A photo was snapped just when I was about to hit the shower. Yes was still wearing my medallion. Just pulled a sweatshirt on and jumped on the next tram home, no time to clean the legs of the mud. If you look closely you can see that my toes are black. That is mud, see previous post to have a look at our shoes

9460 that is my place in previous weekendes Tjejmilen that I ran in Stockholm.
Tjejmilen is one of the largets runing races in the world for females. Its all from the Elite, to runners, joggers, walkers etc.

My journey toward this race started in end of May after I had dome a health check up for my new job at the aquarium. After being informed that my physical age was 43 I decided that I need to ASAP start to work out and get back into my old shape. But what to do?

Studying fulltime and working partime does not make you rich, when your university is in another city from where you live and work. I had promised myself that after the thesis was presented and handed in I would start to take better care of my body and start working out.

The same day as I did that health check I went for my first run inover a year with one of my friend and her dogs, the following week a colleague and friend joined me for a run. Poor thing really had to run slow to keep up with me and had to walk when I was totally completely out of breath, We ran 5 km.

She asked me then if I would like to join her team for Tjejmilen. She needed a fourth person to complete the team. I said yes, but at that time I only had one goal. To run the entire 10 km race, but the time was not important at all.

That was in may, during the summer I have done some 5 km hillystreet runs in Lysekil where I have been living the last 2 months. I have not run as much as I have wished due to a quite physically challenging work including scuba diving, walking in the ocean collecting algea and well being on your legs non stop for a minimum of 5 hrs a day.

Last week I ran my first 10 km in over 10 years time. I felt like I was going to die a couple of times and when my freind on the 8 km wanted me to incerase the speed a little I had no energy left in my body. I finished that run on a decent time 63min.
Sat a new goal for the race on saturday: To run under 60 min.

I never made that time goal unfortunately with a finishing time on 1,04,58 I should be pleased. Starting late in the race with people everywhere and me spending more time on trying to figure out how I can overtake the slower ones + the rain. Some where between the 6th and 7th km the rain started to pour down. We are talking the muddy puddles on the gravel parts of the track turned into lakes, the uphill on the 9th km had a small stream running down and the finsihing line as just a huge mudlake.

But I did it I ran the whole 10 km track!!!
Now my goal for next year to be able to seed into atleast starting group 3. That is I need to run an official 10 km race faster than 58 min. But I can do it I know it.

In may I'm supposed to run a half marathon. Here I am actually wondering what was I thinking!! 10 km is far, 21km is light years away. I am starting to train for this next week already!

I am not talking about my physical fitness here, because that one is actually improving. I have great plans for fitness fall 2012 (hahahaha)

But I am talking about my lack of blogging action. Not sure what has happened, I plan to blog even know what to write about, but before I know it two or more days has passed and nothing has been written.

I know this is a clear sign that I need to slowdown quite a lot and go back to basics. I am trying.

My weeks at the moment are: Work, run, sleep, do something fun on the weekend and then back on the work, run sleep mode again.

And you know what I think it is helping. I feel less stressed even though from day to day I think my colleagues are seriously contemplating having me tested for an ADHD diganosis (no joke) or they suspect at least that I have forgotten to take my medication.

Maybe one day I will learn how to relax and take one day at a time. At least I have managed to move down to one month at a time, we are working on the weekly bits as we speak.....

Saturday, August 11

I only have three days left on my summerjob.
I hope that they will keep me on the books for working extra weekends this off season and hopefully I will be back next summer.
The only thing is that next summer I will not be available to work as much as I have done this year.
I am actually starting to feel desperately that after working/ studying almost every single day for over 2 years my body has had enough.

From wednesday I will for a while only have one job to focus on. In september my spanish course starts, but until then I will try to take it slow and relax on my spare time of work.

Sunday, May 6

This far we have the arguments:
Fit like a glove - ok not good enough
Cost €5 - might work
Have three occasions to wear them in may - just need to wear them at these occasions then
Interior decoration for my shoe shelf - oh yhea still need to buy that shoe shelf

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